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<p class="xex-ex-elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xex-ex-elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It is now time to register for the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2023!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xex-ex-elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">WSC 2023 will be held in person<b> in San Antonio, Texas, from December 10 to December 13</b>. The theme of WSC 2023 is
<b>Simulation for Resilient Systems</b>. Our organizing committee has been finalizing the conference program. WSC 2023 will feature 320+ technical paper presentations, 50+ commercial case studies, 30+ posters, and 40+ doctoral colloquium presentations. As
our proceedings editors are working on the presentation and distribution of this content with you in December, our industrial case study competition,
<a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2023/simulation-challenge/">Simulation Challenge</a>, is currently under way. However, you can still join the challenge: A new scenario will be released on October 1!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xex-ex-" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">You can find the registration information and further details about what is coming to WSC 2023 at our
<a href="http://www.wintersim.org/">website</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We look forward to a great conference in December and we hope you will join us!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">WSC 2023 Publicity Committee</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Caroline Krejci</b> University of Texas at Arlington<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Angel A. Juan</b> Universitat Politècnica de València<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Ek Peng Chew</b> National University of Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Sojung Kim</b> Dongguk University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="482" height="261" style="width:5.0208in;height:2.7166in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://blog.uta.edu/fasstlab/files/2023/02/WSC2023_San_Antonio_perks.png" alt="San Antonio Riverwalk"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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